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President Donald Trump’s budget request to Congress says the administration has enough cash to build 1,000 miles of border wall. “With funding made available from 2017 to 2020, the Administration will build up to approximately 1,000 miles of border wall along the Southwest border,” said the summary of the budget request for 2021 that was sent to Congress Monday. There is a delay between the arrival of funding and the completion of construction, so the administration is unlikely to reach 1,000 miles of wall for several years. The current schedule says roughly 500 miles will be completed by early 2021...

MLB’s plan would add two new wild card teams to the American and National League, boosting the total amount of playoff teams from 10 to 14, per ESPN. Mirroring the NFL, the AL and NL top seed would get a first-round bye, while remaining division winners and wild cards face each other in a best-of-three. More radical is a proposed system that would allow for division winners to pick their opponents, a selection that would be televised live on the final night of regular-season games.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Mother Teresa. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Mother Teresa was one of the most well-known missionaries and Catholic nuns in history. Her work spanning decades in the slums of Calcutta touched millions of lives worldwide and earned her sainthood. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half...

An ad containing film footage showing children in cages and blaming President Trump’s border enforcement policies was actually recorded during the Obama Administration. Aspiring Democratic presidential contender former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the ad, calling it “a white lie in service to a greater cause.” “While the images are from the previous administration, they support the widely held belief among Democrats that Trump is the real villain of the immigration crisis,” Bloomberg argued. “I believe efforts to restrict entry into the United States are wrong. We need low-wage workers to do the menial jobs Americans don’t want...

A photo of an English essay has gone viral and divided the internet after it was shared by the teacher who marked it. Professor Alexis Pereira, who is based in New York, took to Twitter to post an image that revealed details of a paper written by a student, which had nothing to do with the assigned subject.“Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this student,” he tweeted.The essay, which has been awarded a D, comes with a comment written by Prof Pereira in red declaring the student’s efforts...

The theatre of ancient Nea Paphos is one of the most significant Hellenistic-Roman structures in Cyprus; it was in use for more than six centuries between its construction in c. 300 BC and its final destruction by earthquake around 365 AD. It was initially used for dramatic performances, but in its final Roman phases the theatre was converted to an arena and could be flooded for water spectacles... the Hellenistic-Roman theatre, located in the north-east corner of the ancient capital of Cyprus. A number of trenches were opened by the Australian team with the intention of exposing the continuation of...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Trump spoke for an hour to an enthusiastic crowd of more than 11,000 at the Southern Hampshire University Arena on Monday night under banners that read “Promises Made” and “Promises Kept.” Two nights earlier, this same venue hosted the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner. “We have more in this arena than all the other candidates in the Democratic Party,” Mr. Trump said. “One candidate today had 104 people.” The crowd laughed. “I see them campaigning down the street. It’s really boring stuff,” Mr. Trump added. “We are going to defeat the radical, socialist democrats....

We call them the man’s best friend, but for some of us, they’re more than that. Dogs are extremely intelligent creatures with an extraordinary selfless nature. That’s why these indispensable beings are helping people with medical and developmental issues, all over the planet. However, not all dog breeds meet this high demands. Only highly intelligent dogs as German Shepherds or Labradors are able to do this job. And that, after numerous hours of hard training. Therefore, you can imagine what difficult challenges these pups need to complete.

Two views of the asteroid Pallas, which researchers have determined to be the most heavily cratered object in the asteroid belt. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ______________________________________________________________________ Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have observed an asteroid so heavily cratered that they are dubbing it the "golf ball asteroid." The asteroid is named Pallas, after the Greek goddess of wisdom, and was originally discovered in 1802. Pallas is the third largest object in the asteroid belt, and is about one-seventh the size of the moon. For centuries, astronomers have noticed that the...

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence left their rally in New Hampshire and attended the dignified transfer of Sgt. 1st Class Javier Gutierrez and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rodriguez, who were killed in Afghanistan while conducting combat operations on February 8, at Dover Air Force Base. Gutierrez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas and Rodriguez, 28, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, died on February 8 as they engaged a gunman in an Afghan Army uniform. Fox News reports six others were wounded during the attack. Gutierrez and Rodriguez were assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). Both men...

Steve Walsh is under quarantine at a London hospital after becoming infected at Singapore’s Grand Hyatt hotel during a conference for Servomex, a British gas company, the Sun reported. Walsh, 53, a businessman and local scout leader, then traveled to French ski chalet Les Contamine-Montoje with friends Bob and Catriona Saynor, according to the report. Both Bob and his 9-year-old son contracted the illness and are being treated at a French hospital. And three men and a woman — including two health care workers — who knew Walsh and are believed to have stayed at the same French resort also...

It was particularly warm in Northeast Georgia this past week -- no doubt thrilling the earth-worshipping faithful. We’ve also been very wet. After the latest round of rain, temperatures returned to a more winterlike feel. On this past Friday, there were a few murmurings of small amounts of snow on Saturday morning. Of course, any amount of snow in Georgia is news, but as late as Friday evening (scroll to the bottom of the page for the video of the Friday evening/Saturday morning forecast), most forecasts were making little of the potential snowy event. According to the Friday forecasts, most...

Minutes after Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled out President Trump's impeachment trial, which had consumed the Senate for almost three weeks, Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., got right back to what he's said is his top priority -- confirming judges. Less than half-an-hour after TV networks cut away from the Senate to dive into the ramifications of the body acquitting Trump, McConnell filed cloture on the nomination of Judge Andrew Brasher to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, a procedural step that moved the controversial nominee one step closer to confirmation. The body took the next step to confirming...

Dywane Wade is opening up about his 12-year-old child in a candid new interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The basketball star’s kid was born as a boy named Zion, but Dwyane confirmed that the child now identifies as she/her and has asked to be called Zaya. Dwyane raises Zaya, who he has sole custody of after his split from Zaya’s mom, Siohvaughn Funches, with his wife, Gabrielle Union, and explained how he and the actress have done everything they can to support the 12-year-old after she came out as transgender. “We are proud parents of a child in the...

If the coronavirus is a real thing, and I assume it is, why are we letting planes from China land here?? They shouldn’t be able to come to the US at this time. Well, that could have been done a few years ago but now it would be a racist thing to do. Our mainstream media doesn’t care about our health they care about not offending any race. As infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists race to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus centered on Wuhan, China, they’re getting back up that’s been possible only since the explosion in genetic...

How many conservatives have experienced something like this: A friend who knows you are a conservative, a Trump supporter and/or that you are not a global warming hysteric, sends you an email, out of the blue, profanely attacking the President or Rush Limbaugh and you as a conservative or as a climate change denier. This person does this wholly without provocation. You have long avoided ever discussing politics with this person. Maybe you've sent that person a friendly "how are you" and you get back a tirade peppered with ad hominem attacks. He or she may even accuse you of...

CHINA has developed an app that will tell users if they’ve come into “close contact” with people infected with coronavirus. The new software will allow users in the country to scan a QR code via apps such as Alipay, WeChat or QQ to make an inquiry about whether they have come into contact with someone carrying the deadly virus. People are urged to register their phone number and national ID number to use the service. China’s national news agency Xinhua said: “After registering with a phone number, users need to enter their name and [government-issued national] ID number to know...

For the PRESS members here. Copy it fast. Bloomberg in the linked video: "They just keep saying, "Oh, it's a disporionate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be but it's not a disportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder. In that case, incidentally, I think we disportionately (sic) stop whites too much and minorities too little."

It was right after Thanksgiving that I stumbled on Curtis Yarvin’s “Clear Pill” series at American Mind. I found it was just what the doctor ordered. According to Yarvin, there are three class layers in America: Gentry, Commoners, and Clients: The gentry are urbanites, cultivated and ambitious; the commoners are suburbanites, educated and independent; the clients are Marx’s proletariat and lumpenproletariat, uneducated and/or dependent. The Gentry rules by enlisting the Clients in its political army, so "The natural conflict pits commoners against gentry plus clients." The Gentry says, Oh, we care about the victims. Nuts to you deplorables. Do you...

Johnson was riding in the front passenger seat of an adult male friend’s car on February 1 with the driver’s 8-year-old son and 10-year-old stepson riding in the back, police said. The driver got out of the car to use an ATM. The 8-year-old accidentally discharged a loaded Daisy 800 BB/pellet rifle while attempting to move it and shot Johnson in the left eye, according to the police. The teen was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died from his injuries on February 4, police said.